The unemployment rate for Blacks was 13.2 percent last month. This is according to the latest report on the nation’s employment situation released Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly Employment Situation report. This rate was a decrease from October, when unemployment in the Black community was 14.3 percent. For the nation as a whole, unemployment was 7.7 percent in the month of November; this was a decrease from October when the national unemployment rate stood at 7.9 percent. Among whites, unemployment was 6.8 percent; among Latinos, unemployment was 10.0 percent. Comparable October 2012 figures were 7.0 percent and 10.0 percent respectively. Overall, total non-farm payroll employment increased by 146,000 jobs from last month.

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